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The Missourian By: Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle (1873-1961) |
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[Illustration: "JACQUELINE"
"She was the spirit of the enigma, the very personification of the
Napoleonic sphinx"] THE MISSOURIAN by EUGENE P. LYLE, Jr. "In my predestin'd Plot of Dust and Soul." Omar Illustrated by Ernest Haskell New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1905 Copyright, 1905, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, August, 1905 All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian
To MY TWO BEST FRIENDS My Father and my Mother
CONTENTS PART I. THE THORN IN THE LAND OF ROSES I. A Wilful Maid Arrives 3
II. A Fra Diavolo in the Land of Roses 11
III. The Violent End of a Terrible Bandit 18
IV. La Luz , Blockade Runner 27
V. The Storm Centre 34
VI. A Bruising of Arms for Jacqueline 45
VII. Swordsmanship in the Dark 55
VIII. The Thoughts of Youth May Be
Prodigiously Long Thoughts 64
IX. Toll Taking in the Huasteca 69
X. The Brigand Chief 80
XI. The Cossacks and Their Tiger Colonel 89
XII. Pastime Passing Excellent 98
XIII. Unregistered in Any Studbook 108
XIV. The Herald of the Fair God 114
XV. The Ritual 122
XVI. He of the Debonair Sceptre 131
XVII. Rather a Small Man 140
XVIII. Little Monarchs, Big Mistakes 149
XIX. A Tartar, and a Tartar 156
XX. In the Wake of Princely Cavalcades 164
XXI. The Red Mongrel 173
XXII. "Equidad en la Justicia" 182
XXIII. A Curious Pagan Rite 188
XXIV. The Man Who Did Not Want to be Shot 193
XXV. The Person on the Other Horse 200
XXVI. The Strangest Avowal of Love 209
XXVII. Berthe 219
XXVIII. "Mike" 228
XXIX. The Whisper of the Sphinx 238
XXX. The Ambassador 242
XXXI. Carlota 253
XXXII. The Woman Who Did Not Hesitate 258
XXXIII. A Sponsor to the Fat Padre 266 PART II. THE ROSE THAT WAS A THORN IN THE LAND OF ROSES I. Meagre Shanks 273
II. The Black Decree 284
III. As Between Women 293
IV. The Lacking Coincidence 298
V. The Missourians 306
VI. If a Kiss Were All 315
VII. A Crop of Colonels 324
VIII. Royal Resolution 335
IX. Interpreter to the Almighty 344
X. Alone Among His Loving Subjects 351
XI. Fatality and the Missourian 359
XII. The Rendezvous of the Republic 369
XIII. A Buccaneer and a Battle 380
XIV. Blood and Noise What Else? 391
XV. Of All News the Most Spiteful 406
XVI. Vendetta's Half Sister, Better Born 422
XVII. Under a Spanish Cloak 434
XVIII. El Chaparrito 443
XIX. In Articulo Mortis 459
XX. Knighthood's Belated Flower 465
XXI. The Title of Nobility 475
XXII. The Abbey of Mount Regret 484
XXIII. The Contrariness of Jacqueline 496
XXIV. The Journalistic Sagacity of a Daniel 506
THE PEOPLE OF THE STORY THE MISSOURIAN, known in every fight as the Storm Centre. His
real name is John D. Driscoll, familiarly shortened to Din Driscoll... Continue reading book >>
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